Don’t You Dare Call Miriam González Durántez “Mrs Clegg” She is a lawyer and wife to former deputy prime minister Nick Clegg and she recently lampooned an organization on social media for referring to her by her husband’s name. So instead of calling her “Miriam González Durántez” they called her “Mrs Clegg.” She took umbrage […]

These are the types of wives whose marriages will implode in seven years or less: The wife who has no passion of her own It is so important for a wife to have her own interests and her own passions and not to depend on her husband for her every bit of entertainment and […]

Why does it suck extra when it is the woman who has to pay alimony? Below is an excerpt of a conversation we here at Divorce Saloon had about alimony. Do you agree or disagree that when it is the woman who has to pay alimony that it is worse or that it, excuse my […]

Alimony reform is increasingly common across the country and women are usually the ones left holding the blade, as this article in Forbes points out. A key marker for the end of alimony and/or maintenance payments is the age of retirement, that magic moment when the recipient of spousal support becomes eligible for social security […]

For many women of a certain age, divorce can be traumatic in more ways than one. A lot of baby boomer women, for example, were stay at home moms. They either gave up their careers to start their family, or they married so young they never had a career at all. But with the durational […]

Spousal abuse is very common in America and around the world. Women are more often the victim than men. Sometimes it ends tragically for the woman in that she is killed. But sometimes it is the woman who kills her abuser. Consider the story of Wendy Maldonado. Wendy Maldonado was an abused wife and one […]

A recent study indicates that women who divorce after the age of 50 are more likely to be working well into their 70s than their counterparts who divorced before the age of 50. The data suggests that a woman’s financial security really takes a harder hit when her marriage dissolves later in her life than […]

When Amber Heard and Johnny Depp were divorcing in 2016, he allegedly accused her of having an affair with Billy Bob Thornton, Angelina Jolie’s ex husband. Ms Heard and Mr Thornton vehemently denied the accusation. But that apparently did not stop Mr Depp from going to ballistic that he severed on of his fingers, allegedly, […]

I was reading this article about how polls show that family leave pay is a huge issue for voters this year. Apparently people – women in particular – between the ages of 40 – 64 really think this is a huge issue for them in this presidential election. They want it to be law that […]

Single, never married women of a certain milieu in New York are buying up pricey real estate in Manhattan as if it is going out of style at the same time that lot of recently divorced women are having to downsize and reduce their standard of living. It is an interesting phenomenon and it begs […]

When Real Housewives of New York star Ramona Singer announced her divorce after a two-decade + marriage, it got me to thinking that reality shows are intrinsically bad for marriages. This is true not just for Real Housewives but for all participants in reality shows. There are so many examples of this: pop stars like Jessica […]

Are women greedy about the money in divorce actions? Well put it this way: in divorce actions both party are looking out for their Financial interests. It is war and if they have to fight dirty, they do because neither party wants to be left with “less.” The thing that works against women is that usually the husband makes most of the money in the marriage

Improve your Financial Situation After Divorce with these strategies, ladies! Why is the financial situation after divorce still so dire for so many women? Why are women still getting the financial shaft when they get divorced? The financial situation after divorce for a lot of women is quite dire. I was reading this article on […]

Have you heard about this film, “GETT: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem”? This film received decent reviews at the 2014 Cannes Film festival. According to, I believe the Hollywood Reporter: This third instalment in the trilogy on Israeli women by actress Ronit Elkabetz and her brother Shlomi delivers everything a film should: as Ronit said, speaking […]